Alter | 79 Jahre (verstorben) |
Beruf | Dichter, Philosoph, Romancier |
Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 15. Juli 1919 |
Geburtsort | Dublin |
Todesdatum | Montag, 08. Februar 1999 |
Todesort | England |
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Beschreibung | Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE war eine anglo-irische Schriftstellerin und Philosophin. Sie ist bekannt für ihre Sachbücher und Romane, die ethische oder erotisch-sexuelle Themen behandeln. Das bekannteste Werk von Murdoch als Philosophin ist „Die Souveränität des Guten“. |
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
We can only learn to love by loving.
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
